Dust-guard for car-windows.



No. 634,770. Patented on. |o,-|a99.' n. B. SHUTTS.

DUST GUARD FOR CAR WINDOWS.

(Application filed Dec. 81, 1898.)

(No Iludcl.)

A TTO HNEYS NITED ST TES PATENT OFFICE.

HUGH BROOKS SHUTTS, OF SHAWNEETOWN, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF TWO- THIRDS TO DENT REID AND YVINFIELD S. PHILLIPS, OF BIDGW'AY,

ILLINOIS.

D-UST-GUARD FoRcAR-wm o'ows.

SZPECIFICAIION forming part of Letters Patent No. 634,770, dated October 10, 1899. Application filed December 31, 1898. Serial No. 700,806. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: Be it known that I, HUGH BRooKs SnUTTs, of Shawneetown, in the county of Galla'tin and State of Illinois, have invented a new and Improved Dust-Guard for Oar-Windows,

of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description. i

My invention relates to an improvement in those devices which are attached to the sides 1b of car-windows and intended for keeping dust and cinders from entering the window while open and while the cars are in motion.

My invention consists of the novel features hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

.Figure 1 is a sideelevation of part of a car with my device attached to one of the windows. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation on the line 2 2 in Fig. 1. Fig.3 is a sectional plan on the line 3 3 in Fig. 1, and Fig. 4: is a perspective view showing my device detached and also showing it as provided with an auxiliary wing.

Dust-guards for car-windows are usually:

made detachable and are not in position except when put in use. My device is intended to be attached to the car-window at all times, so that a passenger may put-it into use whenever desired. It is also provided in duplicate, one being placed on each side of the window, and is thus in position for use in 5 whichever direction the car is traveling.

A plate D, of thin metal, is secured to the face of thewindow-casing B at one side thereof and immediately outside of the stile h for the sash C. To this plate D is hinged a see- I 0nd plate E, this latter plate forming-the dust-guard, said plate E extending from the window-sill A upward to a height correspond ing with the maximum elevation of the carwindow. Upon the plate D is pivoted a lever 5 F, the pivot fof which is located close to the inner edge of the plate, so that the lever F when placed in a vertical position will have its inner edge in contact with or close to the outer surface of the window-sash. This lever F, as herein shown, is of angular crosssection, one of the flanges bearing against it will be engaged by the sash when lowered.

'tially forty-five'degrees, but which may be varied as desired in any particular case.

The

width of the plate E should be such as is foundnecessary to make an efficient dustguard, the width depending upon the width of the window, a broad window requiring a broad dust-guard. The width of the plate is, however, limited to the depth of the windowcasing. In cases where the depth of the easing is not sufficient to permit a plate of proper Width to fold down outside of the sash the plate E is augmented by a second or auxiliary plate E, hinged to the outer edge. Such a plate is shown in Fig. 4, and its hinge swings in the opposite direction from that of the hinge between the plates D and E.

To the lower end of the plate E is hinged an auxiliary plate H, which is notched at its lower edge, so that it will fully close the space between the lower end of the plate E and the window-sill. This construction is rendered necessary by reason of the bevel of the window-sill, as otherwise there would be a gap between the plate and the sill, through which dust would be likely to enter.

When the device is in use, the lever F extends inward at the side of the window, where The operation of the device is therefore in a measure automatic, the device being folded inward by the engagement of the sash with the -lever B when the sash is lowered.

It will ordinarily be found sufficient to have one of these devices in operation. When it is found necessary, however, the second may be brought intense in the manner shown in Fig. 3. As the device is shown in Fig. 3 the guards are adjusted for use when the car is moving toward the right. The forward guard is shown fully extended, while the rearward guard is only partially extended. In this pcsition it will prevent some cinders from entering the window, which otherwise would strike the window-casing and rebound into the car. Such cinders when my device is in use strike the sloping surface of the rear guard and rebound outside of the car instead of passing to the inside. It is, in fact, not really necessary to shift the rear guard, as it will accomplish this purpose when folded inward. This device being always in position may be operated by the passenger and adjusted to suit his own convenience.

The lever F, projecting within the car when the device is thrown outward, will make it impossible to leave the device extended when the window is closed.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The combination with the window frame and sash, of a dust-guard mounted at one side thereof to swing inward and outward, a lever fulcrumed at one side of the frame and adjacent to the dust-guard, and a link connecting meeting the lever with the dust-guard, the

lever being juxtaposed to the sash so that the movement of the same actuates the lever.

3. The combination of a dust-guard, adapted to be mounted to swing at one side of a window-frame, and an auxiliary or extension plate hinged to the lower edge of the dustguard and adapted to engage the window-sill when the dust-guard is moved inwardly and to extend downward below the sill When the dust-guard is moved outwardly.

HUGH BROOKS SHUTTS.

\Vitnesses:

HARRY E. HULSON, SAML. A. ELROD. 

